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Deep Space Life

In 1965, Jacques Cousteau built a house 100 meters below the surface of the sea. One of the six oceanauts who lived and worked in that house for one month recalls his first excursion on the seabed at such depths. "As soon as as I exit the sphere, I am struck by three things: hoses and cables replace the bubbles... the seabed replaces the surfaces... and night replaces day." 

Poets change the world

On June 11th 2010, I launched a poetry contest to honor my father’s 101st anniversary. The winning poem was to be engraved on a memorial plaque and brought down to the Aegean seabed this summer.

More than one hundred poems were submitted in the form of haikus and on the theme of the ocean. The voting took place on facebook: whichever poem received the most likes won. And it was a heated battle between Stephen Matadobra, Gilli Graham, and Jemfyr Tree. You can find these poems compiled in a free downloadable ebook.

Photos by Pierre-Yves Cousteau, Eric Linders, Daniel Holmstedt, Alexander Reichardt and Jean-Bruno Marciacq.